Duncan Lunan was born in 1945 and grew up in Troon, Ayrshire, attending Marr College and Glasgow University. He is an M.A. with Honours in English and Philosophy with Physics, Astronomy and French as supporting subjects, and has a postgraduate Diploma in Education.
He is a full-time author with emphasis on astronomy, spaceflight and science fiction, plus a wide range of other writing and speaking, as a researcher, tutor, critic, editor, lecturer and broadcaster.

Duncans latest book, “Children from the Sky”, is a speculative investigation of the mediaeval mystery of the Green Children of Woolpit. After ten years of research Duncan offers identifications of the date and locales of the story and of the principal characters, including the green girl herself. Both mediaeval chronicles which tell the story state that she survived into adulthood, and Duncan has traced two families of her descendants to the present. Part 3 of the book, ‘Speculation’, attempts to explain the mysterious parts of the story which led Robert Burton to place it in the astronomy section of The Anatomy of Melancholy in 1621. If true, they would imply extraterrestrial abductions, for experimental purposes, with the knowledge if not the connivance of some of the authorities of the day – “The scenario of The X-Files in the 12th Century.”